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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-16844: Vulnerability in Procmail

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-16844: Vulnerability in Procmail

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
11/16/2017
Created
03/19/2019
Added
08/24/2018
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the loadbuf function in formisc.c in formail in procmail 3.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted e-mail message because of a hardcoded realloc size, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-3618.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-mail-procmail-3-22-0-175-3-35-0-5-0

References

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